Dana White and Alistair Oveerem are living it up at UFC 93 in this picture from our friends at Free Fight Videos. Semmy Schilt also made it out to the event, but man does Dana ever look chummy with "The Demolition Man." Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but does the look on Overeem’s face say, ‘I’m putting my arm around this man because he is my new boss,’ to you?

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And your doing the same thing to him by denying him his point! If your going to attack someone because of their grammar the very least you can do is make sure your owns on mark.

Micah- January 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm

It seems like alot of people on this forum are misinformed on the effects of performance enhancing drugs. HGH is undetectable in UFC drug screenings and possibly is better suited for MMA athletes compared to Testosterone Enanthate or Winstrol which are two of the most common steroids used illegally by athletes today. HGH helps build and maintain lean muscle mass and endurance/stamina which would benefit fighters better than steroids. Either way, more guys have used performance enhancing drugs than you think.

passoutortapout44- January 19, 2009 at 10:55 am

Minutes after this photo was taken, Dana was seen counting his nuts.

(For the record, I'm a big Overeem fan, and would love to see him in the UFC)

Jay Smith- January 19, 2009 at 10:46 am

Well said armfarmer!!!!

Jay Smith- January 19, 2009 at 10:43 am

@ Bovice
No chump here bro. You can be a dick all you want, but you can't deny my original point. I don't know if you read Anonymous' post (about 8 before mine), but it's just kind of comical that grown men (or young adults) can't use punctuation correctly or spell, yet they try to come across as the leading expert of mma.
Then there is people like you that even though you KNOW I have a valid point, you look for the simplest mistake like that somehow makes what I said not true or, makes you better than me because you didn't make a mistake (THIS TIME). Get a life bro.

armfarmer- January 19, 2009 at 9:02 am

I think people look at pride and see more action and more violence and just assume that means better fighters. They don't realize how much the absence of drug testing, the ring, the rules, the refs, the match ups, the fans, the promoting ect. ect. effect the way the fights/fighters look. Pride was less about formal sports competition and more about theatrics, grudge matches, mismatchs, freak show fights and so on. Pride's number one goal was entertainment value. UFC is more of a "real sport" where fighters are matched up based on rankings in order to determine top contenders to fight for titles. It's about finding out who is the best at the sport, not just entertainment. I just think people look at the brawling in pride and equate that with skill, and look at boring fights in the ufc and think that's due to lack of skill. More often the case is that both guys are so skilled they kind of nullify eachother. Just because a fights not exciting doesn't mean the fighters aren't skilled. *cough* machida *cough*

Bovice- January 19, 2009 at 8:10 am

Check out Dana White's fake cousin totally jumping in the picture at the last minute. And Jay Smith, you're bitching about grammar and punctuation, but the people put "their money THEIR"? Come on, man. If you're gonna complain about dumb bullshit like that, then don't look like a fuckin' chump while you're doing it.

Jay Smith- January 19, 2009 at 6:42 am

If Pride was the premiere fighting organization with the best fighters, Dana and "the boys" wouldn't have been able to buy them out. The bottom line is, as the UFC grew into the monopoly of mma that it is today, people realized where the best and most talented fighters were and "put" their money their. Yeah Pride has some bad-asses, but the UFC has the better, stronger, stable of fighters.

P.S. This site is an english teachers nightmare. Looks like a bunch of fourth graders posing as mma fans (grammar & punctuation wise). Good thing I'm a drug dealer! I know Ms. Lavender would be so proud.

Dagnut- January 19, 2009 at 5:40 am

Exactly what the UFC needs someone to kick Lesnar in the bollox..wipe that smug look of his face when his spunk bubbles are in his stomach

armfarmer- January 19, 2009 at 4:49 am

Yeah the pride guys are having to fight with ufc rules, but I doubt forrest griffin, rashad, lidell, ect. would really complain about being aloud to head stomp and soccer kick. A lot of ufc guys would look really brutal and dominant too if they were aloud to stomp people into the ground. But yeah I wasn't saying that ufc fighters as a whole are better than pride fighters, I'm just saying it's really dumb to say pride fighters are better than ufc fighters. They both have a lot of talent and they're pretty close.

If you really think pride fighters are that much better all you have to do is take a look at anyones top 10 rankings for each weight class as well as p4p and you don't exactly see the lists dominated by pride fighters.

rickson by armbar- January 19, 2009 at 4:09 am

Hey Dana, looks like you not alone,your cyborg brother is from Dublin and has come to the event to pretend hes that guy from Mortal Combat that says "Toasty!!"

Assrape

Da Truth- January 19, 2009 at 1:26 am

Dana looks like that drunk embarrasing uncle You try to dodge at every xmas dinner... god the MMA world really needs rid of that fugly idiot.

JEENIOUS?- January 19, 2009 at 12:33 am

buffalo shit? youtube his ass and you'll find him standing on the beach answering faq's about the exact things you're wondering.

Anonymous- January 19, 2009 at 12:25 am

what in the buffalo shit ever happened to arona???

don frye's moustache- January 18, 2009 at 11:38 pm

"I haven't seen ANYTHING that would lead me to believe that pride fighters as a whole are better than ufc fighters"

that's because when the pride guys have fought the ufc guys, it's mainly been in the octagon. is it a coincidence that most of the pride guys aren't quite as good now that they fight in the ufc? i don't think so. i think if all the ufc fighters were forced to go over and fight in pride, we'd be seeing the pride guys doing better. simple as that.

i agree it was a dumbass statement from that guy to say that it's "straight up fact" that pride fighters are better. and i realize you might not be saying that the ufc fighters are better than the ones from pride. but i think you could definitely make the argument that pride had a better crop of great, top fighters. and if the evidence of ufc being better is that the ufc guys win more against them (in the freakin UFC), then that's not a fair way to judge that.

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Pride guys need to adapt their games to octagon. Thats it

You all that are saying shit about cro cop and others are lame

FEDOR= Pride fighter = scared the shit out of Sylvia Former UFC champ.

Nog=Pride fighter former champ and UFC champ but defeated by Mir. Sometimes I think u guys never watched a pride fight. U guys should go watch some Nog fights at pride. He always used to get knocked during the fight, that guy is used to it but now at UFC it seems like he can't fight that way anymore since refs will fuck him up

Anderson Silva=he just owned every single fighter that joined faced him at octagon and thats include former Pride champion Dan. Henderson, but did had a lost at pride

Wer talking about FIGHTS and every little second counts and can change everything .

Pointless to discuss who held the best fighters .

Perdew- January 18, 2009 at 10:47 pm

pride had a ton of talent. no denying that. but some of their fighters are really not the same at all without the pride rules. i.e. shogun and wandy. the are not the same without soccer kicks, which may be telling for how good they really are. i was kinda disappointing to not see coleman on his back with shogun standing over him. i was looking forward to how he'd fare without the stomps.

but fighters like hendo and rampage aren't affected negatively by the ufc rules. thats why they are still awesome and are only getting better.

cr_trinity- January 18, 2009 at 8:25 pm

God Damn Dana White is getting fatter and fucking fatter. It's disgusting to see a non fighter as the head (read FRONT MAN ASS PUPPET) for the so called Premier MMA Organisation. But the Westerner's love affair with the obese has been refined and perfectly legitimised in their pudgy eyes for the past two decades now.

Armfarmer- January 18, 2009 at 8:19 pm

"Pride had way more talent than the UFC thats just a straight up fact anybody claiming otherwise is just retarded."

Do you have anything you'd like to mention in support of your argument? Or is it just not worth your time to explain yourself to all of us retards?

I haven't seen ANYTHING that would lead me to believe that pride fighters as a whole are better than ufc fighters.

JEENIOUS?- January 18, 2009 at 7:52 pm

"Pride had way more talent than the UFC thats just a straight up fact anybody claiming otherwise is just retarded."

MORE TALENTED BECAUSE THEY HAD MORE OF A VARIETY OF DRUGS TO TRY OUT, AM I RITE OR AM I RITE, LIKE TOTALLY?

Maud- January 18, 2009 at 7:51 pm

Nope...Looks more like "I'd rather hang out with this bald guy than that other bald guy...nothing personal."

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Pride had way more talent than the UFC thats just a straight up fact anybody claiming otherwise is just retarded.

tom182- January 18, 2009 at 7:36 pm

overeem looks like he should be the villian in a bond film, the scar on his left cheek and the weird jerry curl hair

drew- January 18, 2009 at 7:32 pm

MMA DoucheBags - now come in two colors!

JEENIOUS?- January 18, 2009 at 7:17 pm

IN PRIDE THEM FIGHTERS GET TO WIN BECAUSE THEY GET TO DO HEAD STOMP AND TAKE DRUGS WITHOUT REPERCUSSIONS!!!11 YOU HERD IT HERE FIRST!!!!!!1111

WERD

Creamy CA Roll- January 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Dana White with his best John McCain impersonation:

My friends, I know you grow a little weary with this back-and-forth. It was a steroid bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the juice companies, and it was sponsored by Leben and Sherk. You know who voted for it? You might never know. THAT ONE. You know who voted against it? ME

Armfarmer- January 18, 2009 at 6:27 pm

I can't believe there are still people spewing that pride has more talent than ufc bullshit. They both have a lot of good fighters and I wouldn't argue with someone saying they were close, but saying pride had more talent is bs. Heath Herring, Nog, cro cop, shogun, w. silva, chonan, sokoudjou, anderson silva.. those are the pride guys I can think of off the top of my head that are in ufc. Out of those anderson is the only one that's been dominant, and the rest have been relatively unimpressive compared to their hype.

Cro cop beat the shittiest heavyweight in ufc, then had 2 one sided losses. Nog had a piss poor showing against herring, was getting beaten down by sylvia until he pulled the sub, then got tkod by mir in 2 rounds. Shogun is 1-1, losing to a "tuf" fighter and then barely beating coleman in a fight that looks like it took place underwater. Sokoudjou and Cro Cop were very successful in pride and got cut from ufc after 3 fights. Heath Herring got schooled by Jake Obrien. Let's also not forget gomi getting subd by a stoned diaz.

Both orgs have great fighters but the pride nuthugging needs to stop already. There's no more reason to claim pride had a deeper talent pool than ufc.

Wyatt- January 18, 2009 at 6:24 pm

maybe I should get on that weight lifting program they have in Japan...or in Lesnar's gym... I weigh 230 natural, imagine after 6 cycles of unregulated horse steroids! Gentlemen, (let's just face it, no girls visit this site) you're next heavy weight champ right here...in 3 years...

HammerTime- January 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm

I feel like they are bringing in Overeem to give Lesnar more competition. The UFC has some good heavyweights, but Lesnar is tipping the scale in muscle mass. That would be a good fight and I think it will happen.

Dana White- January 18, 2009 at 5:13 pm

How long does it take to get roids out ur body ; p

bump- January 18, 2009 at 5:01 pm

That's no robe. It's Ernest Hemingways sweater.

Ricky- January 18, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Holy cow...

Does no one else think the bald dude on the other side of Dana looks like his twin brother??

TheRail1- January 18, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Fighting in the UFC, so easy Alistair Overeem can do it.

Michael- January 18, 2009 at 3:59 pm

And dana says "with hair like that, you'd better be one hell of a fucking fighter"

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 3:38 pm

better fighters? Pride vs UFC is like the NFL vs the european football league in regards to talent except the european league has a chance, because running the ball is no longer allowed.

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Neogetter02- January 18, 2009 at 2:47 pm

LOL! @Anonymous -with that haircut i thought it was junior seau

Creamy CA Roll- January 18, 2009 at 2:38 pm

A Robot is right about the Pride vets facing better fighters. Say what you will about Dana, but he almost never makes his guys fight a bunch of cans... unless your name is Gabriel Gonzaga or Cheick Kongo. Plus the game has evolved a lot in only the last 7 years and it seems that most of the Pride talent that they brought in haven't kept up

A Robot - January 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm

@ Knowitall, Rua is 27 you fucking moron, and Nog is 32. Old age? most fighters are at their best between 30-33. the pride vets aren't getting old, they are fighting better fighters.

Knowitall- January 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Rua, Crocop, and Nog didnt cycle off the juice you n00b. They had a little problem called getting old. Also all those ass kicking they gave and recieved defiently add up. Kang on the other hand put up a great performance last night and was dominating that whole fight. Some of the combinations he threw were very impressive. He just got caught. I would still say he had an impressive outing. Rua's surgeries most likely are what slowed him down, but he's always been known as not having the best conditioning. He also was lazy and didnt train very hard in pride. Has to pick it up now, or I see Liddell fucking his day up.

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm

if he cycles off the juice he will fall flat in the fight like rua,crocop,nog,kang all have

Sneaky Pete- January 18, 2009 at 12:42 pm

@Drew

Not everyone here is an idiot. But if you could, fill us in on what it's like to experience the highs and lows of roid-rage first hand.

Reel Sandman- January 18, 2009 at 12:42 pm

He has almost 20 wins by submission.

Reel Sandman- January 18, 2009 at 12:39 pm

but first he has to develop some kind of ground game lol.

Since when did Overeem start lacking a ground game??

jdavis- January 18, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Overeem vs Kongo for highlight reel nutshot extravaganza

dominicanmma- January 18, 2009 at 12:17 pm

i hope dana signs him it would be entertaining to see him against a lesner or a carwin.

but first he has to develop some kind of ground game lol.

Creamy CA Roll- January 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm

@ bazza76

I know that Leben tested positive after fighting in the UK. The test was administered by the UFC itself, not an athletic commission, hence my comment of Overeem asking Dana not to test him

Payday- January 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm

Yeah, pro athletes are rocket scientists...that is why none of them *ever* get caught juicing.

sorry- January 18, 2009 at 11:41 am

not everyone here takes roids and knows the intricacies of artificial enhancement.

Knowitall- January 18, 2009 at 11:34 am

That'll be good. Overeem will defiently make the weak heavyweight division a little bit better. He's a big dude, and since Nogeuria is done and probably only has a fight or two left in his great career, throw overeem in there. Lesner wont have too big of a size advantage at all.

the glza- January 18, 2009 at 11:07 am

watch out dana -- he's setting you up for an overeem nard smash!

Drew- January 18, 2009 at 11:06 am

HELLO?! IS EVERYONE HERE AN IDIOT?! Overeem will obviously cycle off the roids before making his debut in the UFC. Stupid asses.

mma-pro- January 18, 2009 at 10:56 am

hell yeah, cant wait to see overeem in the cage. he will have no problem passing a drug test. pros know when to cycle so they test clean. cro cop doesnt want any part of overeem and i dont care to see it, the first match was one sided as hell untill the nut shots.

brandon- January 18, 2009 at 10:53 am

Man look how puffy that guys face is.

kostellow- January 18, 2009 at 10:44 am

dana is the man.
he'll make cro cop vs. overeem 2 at the ufc.

Anonymous- January 18, 2009 at 10:11 am

with that haircut i thought it was junior seau

Old, Bald and Irish- January 18, 2009 at 10:01 am

YES!

I realy wanna see Ovreem fight inthe UFC. But yeah D, have him pee in a cup before ya sign the contract with him.

No1Dad- January 18, 2009 at 9:57 am

It's kind of surprising Overeem wasn't picked up sooner after Zuffa bought Pride. It's not like he wasn't a big enough name in the MMA world at the time. I wonder what has changed. Is it just a case of buying up fighters before Affliction can get their hands on them?

mmaster- January 18, 2009 at 9:42 am

Dana - "HEY, ATENCIO.....LOOK!"

Spelling Master- January 18, 2009 at 9:35 am

You spelt Overeem wrong :(

but either way... Why is he wearing a dressing gown to UFC?

Sodak- January 18, 2009 at 9:23 am

I hope its not true i wanna see a cro cop rematch first or maybe see him fight some comp in affliction. i'm sure he'll sign w/ the UFC tho he'd have the belt pretty quick that divisions week.

bazza76- January 18, 2009 at 9:13 am

Hey Creamy CA Roll,
Leben tested positive after fighting in a European event, not over in the states.

well- January 18, 2009 at 9:08 am

Alistair is one of my favorite fighters, he seems to always be entertaining. I bet he'll never pass a roids test though. He may not be on roids but it sure as hell seems like it.

Creamy CA Roll- January 18, 2009 at 9:03 am

Overeem's face appears to be saying "Dana, please don't Leben me. Let me fight in your European and Japanese shows so I can keep juicing!"